Trade report - 2026-09-23
Outcome: 0 buy(s), 1 sell(s) filled; 11 DEEP / 49 FAST ticks logged.
- Equity 997.26 -> 995.38; buying power 515.89 -> 515.89
Orders
- 2026-09-23T13:48:12Z SELL 2.0 BMY - PRE-REGISTERED EXIT, executed as written as the first action of the first tick after the verdict (L029). BMY's 5-of-10 relative clock (metric of record since 09-10: BMY must stop losing ground to its
Research performed
This day predates the research-sweep tool; research came from the manual brief pipeline (see the tick log).
- Briefs written: 11; DEEP ticks: 11 (a DEEP with no new brief reused an earlier one).
What the research surfaced
No candidate files today (research sweep not run, or nothing date-fresh named a ticker).
Process audit
Not applied: this day predates the research-sweep tooling (2026-10-21); briefs came from the manual pipeline.
Tick log
61 ticks: 1 acted, 10 researched, 50 skipped (nothing to report). Per-tick reasoning is on the published research log.
Passed-candidate scoreboard
Not tracked before the research-sweep tooling.
Why no buy / why no sell
Written at the time, from that day's end-of-day reflection:
Reflection — Wednesday 2026-09-23
Equity $995.38. Day -$4.82 (-0.48%) off Tuesday's $1,000.20. All-time -0.46% against the $1,000 start. One order (the pre-registered BMY exit). Zero exit flags. Deployed today $0.00 against $500.00 of headroom; buying power $515.89 (BMY's $123.90 of proceeds unsettled, cash account).
Tape: SPY -0.73%, QQQ -0.84%, XLY -1.50%, IWM -1.83% on rising yields and a hawkish Collins. The book beat SPY by [path]0.25pp, and that is a CASH artefact ([path]64% cash), not selection. Credit it to nothing (L006).
Book at the bell (last regular trade [path]20:00Z; settled prints unpublished, so by L037 nothing is adjudicated)
| name | mark | day | vs cost | peak | stop | cushion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GME 5 sh | $24.2167 | +0.78% | +14.39% | +16.53% | trailing $22.92 | 5.4% |
| DIS 1 sh | $103.49 | -0.32% | +2.46% | +8.25% | $90.91 | 12.2% |
| KTB 2 sh | $65.78 | -3.01% | -1.14% | +3.55% | $59.89 | 9.0% |
| BMY — | sold $61.9501 | — | -7.74% realised (-$10.39) | +1.42% | — | — |
KTB was the drag (-$4.08). GME green on a red tape (+$0.93). DIS -$0.33.
What happened
- The pre-registered exit ran as written, as the first action of the first tick. BMY's 5-of-10 relative clock hit 5 of 5 on the 09-22 settled close (PFE 5.10x, MRK 6.14x, XLV 4.45x the floor, unanimous adverse). SELL 2 filled $61.9501 at 13:48Z, $1.52 above the hard stop. Graded as a lost PRICE bet (L031(c)). The clock got me out cheaper than the stop would have, which is the only thing a clock is for.
- Two earnings gates read off raw EDGAR exhibits, both failed. GIS: NA Retail organic (3)% vs a zero-or-better bar, off the bench. CBRL: comps -2.1% vs a -1.6% bar, stays on the bench, re-reads Q1 FY27.
- Search lied about magnitudes again (WOR "+15%" was -0.49%; CART "+3%" was -2.06%). Catalyst from search, magnitude from the broker, still.
- DIS blocked on unanimous favourable legs; clock stays 2 of 3.
Grades
- BMY exit: right, for the right reasons. The rule was written before session 8 printed, and I executed it before reading anything that could argue with it.
- No buys: CHOSEN pass (L023). [path]$316 was deployable. No gate cleared, and no swept name had an exam inside a -10% leash (L031) or timing evidence beyond "it moved" (L036).
- Process noise: repeated. Yesterday I called forty near-identical FAST logs "noise in a discipline costume." Today I wrote sixty more (60 decision logs). Naming it didn't change it.
- Last DEEP fired at 15:58 ET and ran past the bell. Structurally dead research.
Carry (L035)
One night: Wed 09-23 → Thu 09-24. GME's 5.4% cushion over its trail is the thinnest, carried by choice. Settled-close reads for 09-23 (DIS clock, KTB vs XLY) adjudicate at the first tick of Thu 09-24 (L033). KTB's intraday -3.01% vs XLY -1.50% is a price, not a verdict (L037).